{"id":508898,"date":"2026-05-28T23:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/lohara-tavarez-case-returns-to-court-elena-marizan-will-try-to-obtain-freedom-for-the-third-time\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:02:23","slug":"lohara-tavarez-case-returns-to-court-elena-marizan-will-try-to-obtain-freedom-for-the-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/lohara-tavarez-case-returns-to-court-elena-marizan-will-try-to-obtain-freedom-for-the-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lohara Tav\u00e1rez case returns to court; Elena Mariz\u00e1n will try to obtain freedom for the third time"},"content":{"rendered":"San Francisco de Macor\u00eds<\/strong>. \u2013 The case of the murder of the young architecture student Lohara Tav\u00e1rez Rosario will return to the courts this Wednesday, when Elena Mariz\u00e1n seeks to obtain her freedom for the third time after serving 16 years of the 20-year sentence imposed on her.\n\nThe hearing will be held at the Palace of Justice in San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, where family and friends of the victim reiterated their rejection of any attempt to reduce the sentence or early release for the convicted.\n\nLohara's relatives assured that they will remain firm in their fight to uphold the sentence issued against Mariz\u00e1n, considering that the crime deeply shocked Dominican society.\n\nWith this request, this makes three times that Mariz\u00e1n has tried to change his legal situation, after making similar requests in the years 2022 and 2024.\n\n\n
A crime that shook the country<\/h6>\n\n\nThe murder of Lohara Tav\u00e1rez occurred on November 6, 2009. The body of the 19-year-old was found wrapped in a tarp with traces of cement and paint in an area of the Las Cejas highway.\n\n\n
You can also read: JCE will assume defense in court cases that affect<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nAccording to investigations, the student's face was disfigured by blunt force trauma, wounds caused by scissors, and signs of asphyxiation, as she was found hanged with a shoelace and a piece of cloth.\n\nFollowing the discovery, the National Police and the Public Prosecutor's Office questioned dozens of people close to the victim, including friends and classmates of <\/a>studies.\n\nThe investigations led the authorities to several people involved, including Jer\u00f3nimo Santana Villanueva, whose phone numbers appeared registered in the young woman's cell phone.\n\nSubsequently, Mar\u00eda Magdalena Mariz\u00e1n Flores was arrested, identified by the authorities as the person who allegedly ordered the crime.\n\n\n
During the judicial process, a 17-year-old minor confessed to having murdered Lohara Tav\u00e1rez and declared that Mariz\u00e1n Flores had offered him two million pesos to commit the crime.<\/h6>\n\n\nFor the case, V\u00edctor Alfonso Brito V\u00e1squez, alias \"El Guachi\", was also convicted, found guilty along with Mariz\u00e1n Flores of torturing and murdering the young woman.\n\n\u201cEl Guachi\u201d died in October 2012<\/strong> while receiving medical attention, after being injured during an alleged escape attempt from the Vista al Valle Correction and Rehabilitation Center.\n\nMeanwhile, Jer\u00f3nimo Santana Villanueva was discharged by the court.\n\n\n

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San Francisco de Macor\u00eds. \u2013 The case of the murder of the young architecture student Lohara Tav\u00e1rez Rosario will return to the courts this Wednesday, when Elena Mariz\u00e1n seeks to obtain her freedom for the third time after serving 16 years of the 20-year sentence imposed on her. The hearing will be held at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-508898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508899,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508898\/revisions\/508899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}